Are you ready?

The following can be seen as a serious test of truth, a reality check. Are you ready? By the way if you like to let this come to you as a guided meditation, see below.

Atonement teaches you how to escape forever from everything that you have taught yourselves in the past, by showing you ONLY what you ARE NOW.

Looking good so far, the past is over, yes what I am is now. What to do with what I have learned in the past? How to undo the past?

Your learning gives the present NO MEANING AT ALL. Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present, or teach you how to undo the past. Your past IS what you have taught yourselves.

This makes total sense, but what do I do?

LET IT ALL GO. Do NOT attempt to understand ANY event, or ANYTHING, or ANYONE in its light, for the light of darkness, by which you TRY to see, can ONLY obscure.

Yes, that makes sense. What is it I don’t see?

You who have not yet brought ALL of the darkness you have taught yourselves unto the light in you, can hardly judge the truth and value of this course. Yet God did not abandon you.

Apparently, I could use some help. Tell me what to do, please.

Every dark lesson that you bring to Him Who teaches light, He will accept FROM you, BECAUSE YOU DO NOT WANT IT.

Yes, I don’t want it. I was just circling around in it and in my desperate thinking there was no way out.

He will gladly EXCHANGE each one for the bright lesson He has learned FOR you. Never believe that ANY lesson you have learned, APART from Him, means ANYTHING.

How can I tell the difference between a lesson I taught my self and a lesson learned from Him?

If you are WHOLLY free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet, or even THINK of you, SHARE in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned GOD’s lesson, and NOT yours. Unless all this is true, there ARE dark lessons in your minds, which hurt and hinder you, AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU.

Wow, that sums it up. I need serious HELP here, that is clear. How can I learn this?

Do not be concerned how you can learn a lesson so COMPLETELY different from everything you have taught yourselves. How would you know? Your part is very simple. You need only recognize that everything YOU learned you DO NOT WANT. Ask to BE taught, and do NOT use your experiences to confirm what YOU have learned. 

When your peace is threatened, or disturbed in ANY way, say to yourself, 


“I do not know what anything, INCLUDING THIS, means. And so I do NOT know HOW TO RESPOND TO IT. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.” 

Yes, I will write this expression down, learn it by heart and apply it during the day. What is the benefit? How is this effective?

By this refusal to attempt to teach yourself what you do not know, the Guide Whom God has given you, will speak to you. HE will take His rightful place in your awareness, the instant YOU abandon it, and offer it to Him.

Right. This is amazing. Thank you!

YOU cannot be your guide to miracles, for it is you who made them necessary. And, because you did, the means on which you can DEPEND for miracles, has been provided FOR you.

Source: Ch 14 Bringing Illusions to Truth - G: The test of Truth, Urtext Manuscripts A Course in Miracles

Chapter 14

In the excepts above you read the ‘Test of Truth’ . This is only one section from this chapter. There is always more. Starting to get curious about the rest of the chapter? Listen to it below.

Content Chapter 14: Bringing Illusions to Truth
0:00   A Introduction
2:52   B Guilt and Guiltlessness
13:23 C Out of the Darkness
20:30 D Perception without Deceit
34:03 E The Recognition of Holiness
40:57 F The Shift to Miracles
52:00 G The Test of Truth
1:06:15 The end

Guided Meditation – Test for Truth